K-8 Teacher Certification Course Schedule

This is the general schedule for the program. The schedule may be adjusted in future academic years as the program is typically in a state of continuous change and improvement. Members complete five consecutive quarters* of coursework beginning with spring quarter and attend the University full-time beginning summer quarter.

*Starting spring quarter 2015, the K8 Teacher Certification Program will become a four quarter program, full-time, days, M-F.

Major Themes

Learners and Learning

Contexts of Schooling

Knowing, Teaching and Assessing

Professional Practice

While these themes reverberate throughout all of the courses and fieldwork, there is also a single course or a course combination focused specifically on each of these themes.

Human Growth and Learning (BEDUC 402) emphasizes constructivism but also provides students with an opportunity to learn about several different theories of learning, multiple intelligences, and developmentally appropriate instruction.

Contexts of Schooling (BEDUC 405) focuses on the historical, legal, philosophical, political, ethical and social contexts of learning as a way of revealing the complexity of schooling.

Introduction to Special Education (BEDUC 403) explores the many perspectives on providing education to learners with exceptionalities.

Teaching methods in the program are primarily provided in the courses constituting the "knowing, teaching, and assessing" theme.

Seminars (example: BEDUC 425) in which students reflect on professional practice are conducted each quarter.

Cohort Model

Our Teacher Certification program is a performance-based program designed around a cohort model. Five-quarter option requires one quarter of part-time study followed by a summer and three quarters of full-time study.

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